Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

I'd heard August say more than once, "If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you." T. Ray needed a face-saving way to hand me over, and August was giving it to him.

There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.

A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.

Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts.

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself.